Tuesday, December 6, 2016

3D-printable cookie cutters with Inkscape and OpenSCAD

We thought that our 4-year-old would enjoy a Pikachu cookie cutter for Christmas, but I didn't like the existing designs on Thingiverse. So I wrote a Python script, eventually packaged into an Inkscape extension, that generates a 3D-printable OpenSCAD file from a color-coded SVG path file. Instructions are here.

  

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4 comments:

  1. UnknownDecember 7, 2016 at 10:02 PM

    dang, father points +

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  2. UnknownDecember 7, 2016 at 10:05 PM

    Oh, Dr. Pruss--you emphatically HAVE to see this. Alvin Plantinga's interview on AC and proper function and reliability is the most inspiring philosophical talk he's given yet:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nDOxLh6AbQ

    skip to 0:27 for his first comments

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  3. Jim KSeptember 22, 2018 at 6:45 PM

    Is the source code for this extension available? I'd like to try and add a missing feature.

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  4. Alexander R PrussSeptember 25, 2018 at 1:34 PM

    Yup: https://github.com/arpruss/gcodeplot

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